sabbatical的词源
英文词源
- sabbatical (adj.)




- 1640s, "of or suitable for the Sabbath," from Latin sabbaticus, from Greek sabbatikos "of the Sabbath" (see Sabbath). Noun meaning "a year's absence granted to researchers" (originally one year in seven, to university professors) is from 1934, short for sabbatical year, etc., first recorded 1886 (the thing itself is attested from 1880, at Harvard), related to sabbatical year (1590s) in Mosaic law, the seventh year, in which land was to remain untilled and debtors and slaves released.
中文词源
按照犹太教的律法要求,每周的第七天是停止工作、安心休息的日子,称为“安息日”(Sabbath)。Sabbath一词来自希伯来语shabbath(安息日)。每到这一天,所有犹太人都应该停止工作,商店停止营业。同样,每七年的最后一年也应该停止栽种庄稼,让土地休息。这一年就被称为sabbatical year(安息年)。从19世纪末期开始,西方一些大学借鉴“安息年”的做法,每七年为教师提供一次为期一年的长假,这个长假就被称为sabbatical,是sabbatical year(安息年)的缩写。
Sabbath:['sæbəθ] n.安息日
sabbatical:[sə'bætɪkl] adj.安息日的,安息的n.每七年一次的长假
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来自 Sabbath,休息,安息,-ical,形容词后缀。现词义缩写自 sabbatical year,休息年,用于指 大学教师进行学术研究或旅游的假期。